Armed Conflict: Civilians

(asked on 17th February 2017) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2017 to Question 58516, what his Department's definition is of a civilian object.


Answered by
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Tobias Ellwood
This question was answered on 27th February 2017

Civilian objects are all objects which are not military objectives, as defined in Article 52 of the first Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts of 8 June 1977.

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